July 05, 2024

Julian Assange is Free / Social Media 2024

59 minutes

In a plea bargain with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Justice Department ended its effort to extradite him to the U.S. for an Espionage Act trial, and Assange, freed from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison, returned home to Australia a free man. The Assange legal case is over, but what are the ongoing implications for press freedom? We hear from the reporter who covered the Assange case for its entire duration.

Then … How might social media influence the 2024 election?

Mickey speaks with the three authors (also Project Censored staffers) of a new article on social media, the efforts of government and Big Tech to control or censor it (often without users’ knowledge), and the countermeasures employed by online communities to maintain communications.

GUESTS:

Kevin Gosztola is an independent journalist. He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases, and has been a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His book on the Assange case, Guilty of Journalism, was published in 2023.

Gosztola is also the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org.

Kate Horgan is Website Design & Media Assistant at Project Censored.

Reagan Haynie is Social-Media Manager at Project Censored.

Shealeigh Voitl is Digital & Print Editor at Project Censored.

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